Welcome to Handpicked.
Handpicked is a weekly dispatch of links and photographs, curated with love and strong opinions for the past 5+ years.
Every issue is jam-packed with sparkly little internet joys, cute clothes, and motherhood stuff. Sometimes it gets personal – from quitting Instagram to my fourth birth story and beyond.
Come for the curation, stay for the Deep Dives.
about alex
I’m Alex Sorensen Steele, mother of four.
I’m also a portrait photographer: I’ve been making photos on film since 2010, mainly for families and small businesses. I also shoot little weddings in the American Southwest.
Last year I started helping other women create newsletters. I’m a third-generation newsletter writer and a giant newsletter nerd! If you’re thinking about starting a newsletter, please message me!
I’ve written hundreds of issues of Handpicked while my children nap, attend school, and/or run wild. I live in the South Bay of Los Angeles.
You can check out vintage issues of Handpicked here.
things i also am
Stay-at-home mom, bra-burning feminist, Instagram quitter, Anthropologie veteran, multiple miscarrier, Mormon, vegetarian, Trader Joe’s junkie, enormous know-it-all, Californian-turned-Midwesterner-turned-Californian, empath.
Happy to have you.